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David Livingston

David Livingston is an associate fellow in Carnegie’s Energy and Climate Program, where his research focuses on geoeconomics, markets, and risk. He is also a nonresident associate of Carnegie Europe in Brussels. Previously, he served as the inaugural Robert S. Strauss fellow for geoeconomics at the Office of the United States Trade Representative, where he concluded as acting Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for Congressional Affairs. He also has worked at the World Trade Organization in Geneva and at the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) in Vienna. Livingston was selected as a Future Energy Leader by the World Energy Council, is an alumnus of the Atlantik Brücke Young Leaders Program, and serves on the board of South by Southwest (SXSW) Eco.

The start of 2019 was marked by the release of a new report from the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) that seeks to chronicle the myriad ways that climate change and the quest for a cleaner and lower-carbon energy system is…

The hefty increase in oil production in the United States over the past decade, largely due to new reserves being unlocked by advances in shale drilling technology, has dramatically shifted the role of the United States in global energy…

The past two years or so have witnessed dramatic swings in the global oil market. Oil prices (Brent) dropped below $30 in early 2016 amid a massive supply/demand imbalance and swollen global crude and product inventories doing their best to…

Almost one year after US President Donald Trump’s inauguration, the general contours of his administration’s approach to climate and energy policy is coming into focus. In terms of climate change, the most attention-grabbing item was…